Industry Commission submission to the Review of Higher Education Financing and Policy / Industry Commission
- Bib ID:
- 1578338
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Australia. Industry Commission
- Description:
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- Canberra : Industry Commission, 1997
- xvii, 172 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0644382902
- Summary:
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This submission seeks to address two of the fundamental issues identified by the Review Committee. (1) The appropriate role of government and related policy issues; and (2) the efficacy of different reform options for the financing of higher education.
- Full contents:
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- Key messages
- 1. The higher education sector - a snapshot
- 2. What role for governments?
- 3. Recent reform initiatives
- 4. The need for further reform
- 5.The level and form of the public contribution for teaching
- 6. Administratively-based reforms
- 7. Market-based reforms
- 8. Concluding comments
- Appendix 1. An overview of the higher education sector
- A1.1. The broad structure of the sector
- A1.2. Funding of the sector
- A1.3. Participation in higher education
- A1.4. International comparisons
- Appendix 2. Current funding and charging arrangements
- A2.1. The Unified National System: a framework for reform
- A2.2. User charges for higher education HECS
- A2.3. Higher education fees
- A2.4. Other higher education programs
- A2.5. Student assistance schemes
- Appendix 3. Rationales for government involvement
- A3.1. Efficiency rationales
- A3.2. Equity rationales
- A3.3. Performance monitoring and accountability
- Appendix 4. Private rates of return to higher education
- A4.1. A framework for examining the costs and benefits of higher education
- A4.2. Data sources
- A4.3. The impact of different fee structures on the private rate of return to higher education
- A4.4. Summary
- Appendix 5. Improving the existing charge regime
- A5.1. Improving the HECS charge regime
- A5.2. Improving the other aspects of the design of HECS
- A5.3. Improving institutional fee regulations
- Appendix 6. Performance-based funding
- some key issues
- A.6.1. Benefits from performance-based funding
- A.6.2. Performance measurement and monitoring
- A6.3. Some additional design issues
- A6.4. Principles and observations
- Appendix 7. Competitive tendering - some key issues
- A7.1. Developing a tender process
- A7.2. Managing service providers
- A7.3. Barriers to the applications of competitive tendering
- A7.4. Some broad principles
- Appendix 8. Demand-based funding - some key issues
- A8.1. Key elements of a demand-based funding model
- A8.2. Potential implications of a demand-based approach
- A8.3. Promoting competitive outcomes in higher education
- A8.4. Approaches to equity and research funding.should be su
- Notes:
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- "July 1997".
- At head of cover: Forming the Productivity Commission.
- Bibliography: p. 163-172.
- Also available online via the World Wide Web.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Review of higher education financing and policy
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